Tag: gather essentials writing
member name: Greg Schiller
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July 21, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
Sorry, I am late and lean with today's update. I just got off a conference call with Gather Central, where I had a sneak peek at the new format you will see tomorrow. I . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
I have yet to visit the eHarmony website, but I am curious. Can anyone tell me if the following items appear on their compatibility questionnaire?
- Which is louder: a pile driver or your snoring? . . .
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May 19, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
After four hours of touring the flat expanses of Eastern North Dakota, I told my buddy I'd seen empty parking lots with more scenery.
At least parking lots have interesting stuff like white . . .
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December 14, 2009 07:18 PM EST --
Raise your hand if you have ever changed a flat tire.
Okay, put your hands down.
Now, who has waged that battle with the emergency equipment found in the typical trunk?
Okay, you can stop . . .
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April 28, 2008 08:24 AM EDT --
There was a time when almost everyone in Minnesota lived in a tent. The equipment in those days was pretty basic stuff: buffalo hide shelter, wicker backpacks, wooden utensils and maybe a clay vessel . . .
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May 05, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
I remember my son's coach ticking his way through the roll-call before the soccer games: "Joshua, Jeremiah, Jason, Joshua, Joshua, Joshua".
You get the idea.
To . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
I don't believe in "Global Warming".
No, not at all.
I've read some interesting studies about carbon forcing and others that suggest the whole thing is overblown, but at least . . .
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August 11, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
Good Morning Gathered,
First, allow me to thank John Philipp for filling in last week as Gather Essentials: Writing Member Editor. He did a fine job (as you may have noticed by the uptick in the quality . . .
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December 14, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
The forecast says, "cold with snow", it's the sort of . . .
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April 14, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
I have been told by experts in such matters that on a golf course I am a clear and present danger to all living things as well as any inanimate object within the range of half a mile.
Much of this . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
Could there be an entry in the White House speech-writing stylebook that reads, "A paragraph anchored by an inference to "Global Warming" can state anything and still be credible with . . .
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October 20, 2008 01:34 PM EDT --
There are a number of books that I read and re-read. Some I read because when I read them, I want to write like that. Others I read because when I read them, I learn the way to . . .
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October 27, 2008 11:14 AM EDT --
Today, I'll be brief. An aunt succumbed to a long struggle with a weak heart and I have a funeral to go to.
Yesterday's wake was a bitter-sweet affair. Bitter because a piece of our . . .
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March 17, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
Bud asked Irene, "If gambling is so fun, how come no one here is smiling?"
She didn't have an answer for that, neither did she have an excuse for dragging him into Ceasar's Palace. . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:13 AM EDT --
In January of 1976, Jimmy Carter smiled his way toward the presidency, I worked third shift in a steel foundry, a communist army occupied Saigon and the coldest winter in decades gripped the Twin Cities. . . .
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May 12, 2008 06:54 AM EDT --
My ex-wife waged endless war over the mess in our kid's bedrooms.
She was a master of command and control who viewed every tiff over cleaning as the final battle of Armageddon. . . .
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July 14, 2008 01:05 AM EDT --
This afternoon, the missus and I endured an usually long line at the coffee shop.
Our cashier, a fresh young man with crisp tattoos and silver piercings, pecked warily at the register. He seemed skittish . . .
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September 22, 2008 12:58 PM EDT --
I pryed open my wallet and bought a new camera this weekend. To try it out my wife and I traveled to Mantorville Minnesota. For those not familiar with the state, Mantorville . . .
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September 29, 2008 11:54 AM EDT --
Welcome to Northfield Minnesota, for years my hometown and current home to my favorite pub.
The town motto of Northfield is: Colleges, Cows and Contentment.
So it . . .
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October 06, 2008 12:21 PM EDT --
Good Morning!
This is the view out my front door. It once was a golf course, but they shut it down when I moved in. For good reason, I am the kind of golfer who . . .
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